Vasily N. Popov

Doctor of Engineering, Professor, Professor, Voronezh State University of Engineering Technology

• Web of Science ResearcherID J-9175-2013
• ORCID 0000-0003-1294-8686
• Scopus ID 7404534151

Labour

1974  –  the year of birth

1995  –  Graduate student in the Department of Physiology and Plant Biochemistry

1997.  –   Ph.D. thesis

1998g. Senior Lecturer in plant physiology and biochemistry; internship at the Free University of Amsterdam, fellow of the Federation of European Biochemical Societies; internship at the Free University of Berlin, fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

2000.  –  Associate Professor of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry

2001. Assigning the rank of associate professor; work at the University of Campinas, Brazil, visiting professor

2002.  –  Work at the Free University of Amsterdam, research intern in the program INTAS

2003.  –   Doctoral thesis

2004. Professor of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry; intern at the CRDF – Fund program of V. Potanin at the University of Utah and the University of Utah for the Management of Research

2006. President of the Russian Union of Young Scientists; Guest editor of biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)  –  Bioenergetics

2007.  –  Deputy Chairman of the Coordinating Council for Youth in Science and Education at the Council on Science, Education and Technology under the President of the Russian Federation

2008.  –  Head of the Department of Genetics, Cytology and Bioengineering of THE UHU; Member of the expert council on the consideration of candidates for the Russian Presidential Awards for Young Scientists

2009. – Joining the reserve of management personnel under the patronage of the President of Russia; Chairman of the Council of Young Scientists of Voronezh Region

Justification for significant contribution to the development of the relevant area of knowledge

The field of scientific interest:

Bioenergy of plant and animal cells. Study of the physiological role of free oxidation processes, in particular unconscionable and disjointed breathing.

Key scientific results:

• Discovering the role of alternative oxidase in regulating the rate of formation of active oxygen forms in plants;
• studies the contribution of anion vectors to the dissociation of breathing and oxidative phosphorylation by free fatty acids;
• Identification of molecular and genetic mechanisms for regulating the synthesis of components of the mitochondrial electron transport chain.

Contribution to the development of science:

more than 400 scientific publications

Selected works:

Popov V.N., Simonyan R.A., Skulachev V.P., Starkov A.A. Inhybition of alternative oxydase induses H2O2 production in plant mitochondria // FEBS Letters, 1997, V. 415, N1, P. 87-90.
Popov V., Markova O., Mokhova E., Skulachev V.P. Effects of in vivo cold exposure and in vitro uncouplers and recouplers on potato tuber mitochondria // Biochem. Biophys. Acta. 2002 V. 1553, P. 232—237.
Popov V.N., Dmitrieva E.A., Eprintcev A.T., Igamberdiev A.U. The separation and charachterisation of glycolate oxydase from maize mesophill and shuttle bindle cells // Journal of Plant Physiology. 2003. V.160, Issue 8. 851—857.
Popov V.N. Possible role of free oxidation processes in regulation of reactive oxygen species production in plant mitochondria (review) // Biochem. Soc. Transactions. 2003. V. 31, N. 6, P. 1316—1317.
Khailova L.S., Prikhodko E.A., Dedukhova V.I., Mokhova E.N., Popov V.N. and Skulachev V.P. Participation of ATP/ADP antiporter in oleate- and oleate hydroperoxide-induced uncoupling suppressed by GDP and carboxyatractylate. // Biochim Biophys Acta. 2006, 1757(9-10):1324-1329
Popov V.N., Eprintsev A.T., Fedorin D.N., Igamberdiev A.U. Succinate dehydrogenase in Arabidopsis thaliana is regulated by light via phytochrome A // FEBS Letters. — 2010. — V. 584, N 1. — P. 199—202.